Professor Franciszek Bujak, Roman Kramsztyk (1885 Warsaw – 1942 Warsaw), after 1910, Signed at top right: Kramsztyk, National Museum in Cracow

The painting is an example of a penetrating psychological portrayal. Franciszek Bujak (1875–1953), professor of the history of economy at the Jagiellonian University (1908–1919), Warsaw University (1919–1921), and the John Casimir University in Lvov (1922–1941).

Roman Kramsztyk attached great importance to the structure of a picture. By immortalizing on canvas the well-known people from the world of science, politics, and culture, Kramsztyk created an extraordinary gallery of the Polish intelligentsia of the first half of the 20th century. He left numerous likenesses of his friends and acquaintances as well as officially commissioned portraits.

Professor Henryk Wereszycki, Jacek Rykała, Sosnowiec 1950, 1987, Signed at bottom left: Rykała 87, Jagiellonian University Museum

The rendering of the likeness in realistic tradition, going back to 17th century Dutch portraits, with the conscious use of strong contrasts between light and shade, is responsible for remarkable painterly qualities of the picture which is full of tension.

Henryk Wereszycki (1909–1990) was a specialist in the history of Poland during the partition period, of European diplomacy in the 19th century, and of the Habsburg monarchy. From 1947 he was a professor at Wrocław University and from 1956 at the Jagiellonian University.

Jacek Rykała is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice (a branch of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts)

Professor Franciszek Giżbert-Studnicki, Zbysław Marek Maciejewski (Pohulanka 1946 – Cracow1999), 1982, Signed and described on the back: Zbysław Marek Maciejewski, 31-006 Kraków, Grodzka 10/4, Portret prof. F. Studnickiego, tem. akryl 80x95cm, 1982, Jagiellonian University Museum

Franciszek Giżbert-Studnicki (1914–1994) worked at the Jagiellonian University, and from 1969 was a professor there. He specialized in civil law. His scientific achievements concern civil law, theory of law, and legal information technology.

Zbysław Marek Maciejewski was a professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow.

Professor Henryk Szarski, Allan Rzepka (Cracow 1940), 1981, Signed at bottom left: Allan Rzepka 1981XI, Jagiellonian University Museum

Henryk Szarski (1912–2002) was a professor of zoology at the Mikołaj Kopernik University in Toruń from 1948 to 1966. In 1967 he started his work at the Jagiellonian University. He is the author of numerous scientific papers on comparative anatomy and phylogenesis of vertebrates.

Allan Rzepka studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, since 1976 he has been a lecturer at the Academy.

Professor Kazimierz Stołyhwo,  Zofia Rudzka (Cracow 1894 – Cracow 1976), 1937, Signed at bottom left: Z. Rudzka, Jagiellonian University Museum

In 1905 Kazimierz Stołyhwo (1880–1966) set up the Anthropology Laboratory at the Museum of Industry and Agriculture in Warsaw. From 1933 to 1960 he was a professor at the Jagiellonian University. His scholarly achievements concern anthropogenesis and the diversification of contemporary people.

Zofia Rudzka graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, but was chiefly connected with the “Zachęta” Group in Warsaw.

Professor Stanisław Pigoń, Krzysztof Bucki (Pińczów 1936–Opole 1983), 1979, Signed at bottom right: Krzysztof Bucki 1979, Jagiellonian University Museum

Stanisław Pigoń (1886–1968) was an eminent historian of Polish literature. From 1921 he was a professor at Vilnius University, and from 1931 a professor at the Jagiellonian University. He was chiefly interested in the Romantic period and in that of Young Poland.

Krzysztof Bucki completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow.

Professor Henryk Markiewicz, Krzysztof Bucki (Pińczów 1936 – Opole 1983), 1980, signed at bottom left: Krzysztof Bucki, Jagiellonian University Museum

This is a good example of a contemporary Polish portrait of a professor.

Henryk Markiewicz (b. 1922) is a historian and theorist of literature (the positivist period in Polish literature). In 1956 he became a professor at the Jagiellonian University.

Professor Adam Bielański, Renzo Galeotti, Carrara 1939, 1983, signed at bottom right:, R.Galeotti,83, Jagiellonian University Museum

Adam Bielański (b. 1912), from 1954 was a professor at the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy and from 1964 at the Jagiellonian University, in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry; from 1966 to 1968 he was Prorector of the University. His chief domain of research is physico-chemistry of solids and catalysis.

Professor Władysław Stróżewski, Jan Sawka (Zabrze 1946), 1991, signed at bottom edge: Jan Sawka ‘92, Jagiellonian University Museum

Professor Władysław Stróżewski (b. 1933) has been working at the Jagiellonian University since 1958 and it was here that he obtained a professorship. His investigations concern the history of philosophy, ontology, the philosophy of values and aesthetics as well as anthropology.

Jan Sawka completed his artistic studies in Wrocław. He pursues painting, graphic arts, poster, stage design, and installation; in the last-named genre he employs state-of-the-art electronic technology.

A Set of Scientific Instruments, Jolanta Jakima-Zerek (Sanok 1944), 1979, signed in the middle of the right-hand edge: Jakima 79,Mikołaj Kopernik Museum in Frombork

The painter, inspired by astronomers’ studies as well as scientific instruments, their form and function, executed a cycle of drawings depicting the surviving historical objects connected with Nicholas Copernicus and his landmark work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.

Jolanta Jakima-Zerek graduated from the College of Plastic Arts in Łódź.

Optical Microscope GFL, Carl Zeiss, Jena, the 1950s, signed (on the base, stand, stage, tube, eyepieces, and objectives): Carl Zeiss/Jena, Jagiellonian University Museum, The property of Jerzy Nomarski

This is a modified phase microscope of GLF type with sockets for mounting Nomarski prisms.

Jerzy Nomarski (1919–1997), a Polish physicist, optics specialist and designer, author of 29 patents, lecturer at the College of Optics in Paris (ESO). He modified an interferometer microscope by the application of a differential interference contrast (DIC), sometimes called NIC (Nomarski Interference Contrast). Nomarski’s design was implemented by the Carl Zeiss Jena firm.

Axioskop 50 optical microscope, Carl Zeiss, Jena, ca. 1995, signed (on the base, eyepieces and objectives): Zeiss/West Germany, Jagiellonian University Museum, The property of Jerzy Nomarski

The modern microscope is compatible with a computer, with the possibility of connecting a camera independent of the observer.

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